A Burger King in New Jersey, US, will soon be harnessing the kinetic energy from drive-thru cars to supplement their energy needs. They have installed an energy-collecting speed bump that stores and collects twice daily...
Renewable energy is one of those terms we hear a lot these days, with the green revolution peering out from behind peak oil, unstoppable climate change and a global economic May Day. This is a...
To make renewables work well our smart energy future is going to require lots and lots of battery storage, because if the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining, where else will all the...
Well plenty! You see, we literally live in a sea of them. Fundamentally we are made from them (and other atoms...), and we use a hell of a lot of them to do things for...